--- title: "Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey: the reviews" canonical: "https://film.one/film/winnie-the-pooh-blood-and-honey/reviews" title_page: "https://film.one/film/winnie-the-pooh-blood-and-honey" critics_score: 25 critics_reviews: 14 licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey (2023): what the critics said Critics' score 25 from 14 reviews: 0 positive, 1 mixed, 13 negative. The consensus is strongly negative: most critics find Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey a thin slasher whose childhood characters supply a premise but little else. The reviews repeatedly criticise the writing, performances and murky visuals, with scant praise for any department. What appreciation there is centres on the practical gore and occasional effectiveness of the grotesque imagery. Several critics argue that the lack of humour wastes the opportunity for an irreverent reinvention, while others object to the sadism and treatment of women. The disagreement concerns how much those basic horror pleasures count for. IndieWire offers the lone mixed assessment, finding that the murderous Pooh and Piglet deliver the expected cheap thrills despite the limitations. Polygon also credits the gore, but finds the pacing and lack of personality dispiriting. The masks divide opinion: Empire finds them initially creepy, while The Wrap considers them too cheap to make convincing monsters. ## IndieWire — Christian Zilko Rating C+. 16 February 2023. The microbudget slasher delivers exactly the expected public-domain horror premise of a feral Pooh and Piglet going on a murderous rampage. It succeeds at basic gory kills and cheap thrills despite its obvious limitations. [Read the review](https://www.indiewire.com/2023/02/winnie-the-pooh-blood-and-honey-review-1234810592/) ## Little White Lies — Patrick Sproull Rating 1/2/1. 10 March 2023. The critic calls the film a technically incompetent slasher that delivers only on the basic promise of seeing Pooh and Piglet hack people to death. They single out its lack of conscience and self-awareness as making it slightly preferable to something like Cocaine Bear. [Read the review](https://lwlies.com/reviews/winnie-the-pooh-blood-and-honey) ## The New York Times — Kyle Turner Fi1m's normalised score 30/100 (inferred from the text). 17 February 2023. The film gives a threadbare horror treatment to a childhood favorite. Pooh and Piglet are turned into grotesque cannibalistic monsters who terrorize young women after Christopher Robin abandons them. [Read the review](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/17/movies/winnie-the-pooh-blood-and-honey-review.html) ## The Times — Ziba Adel Rating ★☆☆☆☆. 10 March 2023. What could be irreverent fun is disappointingly and disturbingly not played for laughs in this low-budget horror. The opportunistic zero-budget flick cloddishly desecrates childhood memories with a dimly written sub-standard slasher aimed only at making a fast buck. [Read the review](https://www.thetimes.com/culture/film/article/winnie-the-pooh-blood-and-honey-review-nightmare-in-the-hundred-acre-wood-ssctm9fsl) ## Radio Times — Terry Staunton Rating 1/5. The critic describes it as an amateurish horror that stretches a thin premise into a nasty, pointless exercise in gore with shoddy camerawork, dreadful script and appalling performances. They single out the illogical choice of mostly female victims given the bear's grudge against Christopher Robin. [Read the review](https://www.radiotimes.com/movie-guide/b-khpq2g/winnie-the-pooh-blood-and-honey/) ## Time Out — Helen O’Hara Fi1m's normalised score 20/100 (inferred from the text). 8 March 2023. The critic finds it just another sadistic slasher movie notable only for its inexpressive animal masks, missing the chance for witty reinvention of the characters. They single out its reveling in misogyny, titillation and gore without characters or texture. [Read the review](https://www.timeout.com/movies/winnie-the-pooh-blood-and-honey-2023) ## Empire — Kim Newman Fi1m's normalised score 10/100 (inferred from the text). 9 March 2023. The critic finds the film fails on every level with the poorest writing and acting in a theatrically-released horror film. They single out the creepy masks as initially effective but criticize the overall ineptitude and lack of fun. [Read the review](https://www.empireonline.com/movies/reviews/winnie-the-pooh-blood-and-honey/) ## The Guardian — Peter Bradshaw Fi1m's normalised score 10/100 (inferred from the text). 9 March 2023. The film is a terrible horror version of AA Milne that combines not-scary and not-funny elements in a cack-handed execution. It delivers a generic derivative slasher script where Pooh and Piglet could just as easily be masked killers menacing young women. [Read the review](https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/mar/09/winnie-the-pooh-blood-and-honey-review-cack-handed-out-of-copyright-horror) ## The Telegraph Fi1m's normalised score 10/100 (inferred from the text). 9 March 2023. This moronic slasher re-imagines the childhood friends as ravening mutants in an amateurishly made film that is hard to see and hear. It is guaranteed to be the most cretinous film covered in 2023. [Read the review](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/0/winnie-the-pooh-blood-honey-review-thought-cocaine-bear-bad/) ## Polygon — Tasha Robinson Fi1m's normalised score 40/100 (inferred from the text). 16 February 2023. The critic finds it a dreary, dispiriting viral provocation with no substance or real ties to Winnie the Pooh. Singles out effective practical gore, convincing screams of agony, and grotesque imagery for exploitation fans while criticizing the leaden pacing, murky visuals, and absence of humor, personality, or purpose. [Read the review](https://www.polygon.com/reviews/23602955/winnie-the-pooh-blood-and-honey-review-horror/) ## NME — James Mottram Fi1m's normalised score 30/100 (inferred from the text). 7 March 2023. The critic calls it a sticky mess of a movie, a low-budget, bad-taste romp that relies on gory kills but lacks substance despite a clever public domain concept. They single out the prosthetic masks and the film's reliance on gratuitous violence for complaint. [Read the review](https://www.nme.com/reviews/film-reviews/winnie-the-pooh-blood-and-honey-review-horror-3409540) ## The Wrap Fi1m's normalised score 20/100 (inferred from the text). 16 February 2023. The critic finds the film a cheap, crass, and largely incompetent horror movie that feels half-written with pointless characters and storylines. They single out the embarrassingly cheap monster masks that fail to make Pooh and Piglet look like actual monsters. [Read the review](https://www.thewrap.com/winnie-the-pooh-blood-and-honey-review/) ## Collider — Ross Bonaime Rating F. 16 February 2023. The critic calls it a disaster of an idea with terrible execution and one of the worst films of 2023. Singles out the shoddy production, atrocious performances, inept direction and screenplay, and complete lack of meaningful connection to the source material beyond the title. [Read the review](https://collider.com/winnie-the-pooh-blood-and-honey-review/) ## /Film — Witney Seibold Rating 1/10. 16 February 2023. The critic finds the film a stupid, humorless bloodbath that plays the horror premise completely straight without any irony or creativity in its kills or filmmaking. They single out the poor, static rubber masks for the creatures as a major visual failure. [Read the review](https://www.slashfilm.com/1202140/winnie-the-pooh-blood-and-honey-review-dont-bother-with-this-humorless-bloodbath/) --- © Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Our review: https://film.one/film/winnie-the-pooh-blood-and-honey.md